The 1718 Coverlet: 69 Quilt Blocks from the Oldest Dated by Susan Briscoe

By Susan Briscoe

Quilters should be relish this ebook that includes the earliest dated piece of British patchwork--the 1718 coverlet.

The 1718 coverlet is the earliest identified British patchwork that has a date labored into the piece and types a benchmark opposed to which all different infrequent survivors of early 18th century patchwork should be compared.

Step again in time and tips on how to recreate all of the beautiful sixty nine blocks through simply following the exact directions provided within the booklet, which you could then use separately or jointly to make your individual copy coverlet.

A terrific ancient quilting reference the coverlet used to be made utilizing the Mosaic patchwork technique--a time-consuming strategy requiring using paper for templates. many of the paper templates nonetheless stay within the coverlet and supply tantalising glimpses of published and hand written textual content together with accounts, letters and revealed textual content in addition to hand drawn designs for the quilt.

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